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...applaud TIME for featuring victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy on the cover [April 30]. You reminded us that the lives taken were real. Some of the photos hinted at extracurricular interests; others were obviously school, military or formal photographs. All were pictures of promise. The images of Cho Seung-Hui were disturbing and indicative of the evil in the world. But the faces staring at me from your cover, while heartbreaking, were reminders of the love and promise that abound. Thank you for showing them to us. Christopher Yodice, LEVITTOWN, NEW YORK...
...applaud TIME for featuring victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy on the cover [April 30]. Some of the photos hinted at extracurricular interests; others were obviously school, military or formal photographs. All were pictures of promise. The images of Cho Seung-Hui were disturbing, but the faces staring from the cover, while heartbreaking, were reminders of the love and promise that abound...
...same place: the infamous Administrative Board of Harvard College (Ad Board).Thankfully, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 recently told The Crimson that he hopes to convene a committee to reevaluate the Ad Board and its practices in the near future. We applaud this effort to look at ways to reform the Ad Board, and we hope that the review committee—which should include students—will take steps to increase student representation and improve transparency.The Ad Board is an assembly of 30-odd faculty and administrators, which, since 1890, has been...
...recent decision not to fund club sports in its final grant package brought to light an unfortunate reality: Many Harvard club sports teams are severely underfunded. The Department of Athletics, not the Undergraduate Council, is responsible for ensuring that these important teams exist and succeed. While we applaud the UC for its past attempts to better a bad state of affairs, it ultimately falls to the Department of Athletics to adequately fund club sports. Unless a club sport doesn’t need a coach, equipment, or travel—highly unlikely—it’s going...
...often talk about homelessness from the perspective of a large societal issue, which it is indeed. Of course there are institutional ways to deal with these issues. I applaud the students at the Harvard Square Homeless shelter and other shelters that seek to meet the needs of this population...